Books: Armenian Epic

To the ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian"
suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week
Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an
actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody
no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with
All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one
of the War's big books.